When Art and his party rushed to Paris by boat, Stanley, the captain of the task force directly under the Earl of Wales's bodyguard, who had received an urgent military order, had already led ten members of the team to arrive in Paris as soon as possible.

When Stanley and his party arrived on the outskirts of Paris, they kept all their horses on a farm on the outskirts of the city, and then he ordered the task force to split into three, disguised as travelers of different identities, and infiltrated the city of Paris with their own soldiers.

The city of Paris is a large open city, and it is too easy for the people of the task force to enter the city.

After entering the city, three groups of men and horses acted separately, one group searched for a hiding place and a safe house in the city, one group collected the materials and equipment needed for the operation (vehicles, clothing, disguised identity), and Stanley personally led two subordinates who were good at painting through the streets and alleys of Paris City, drawing a map of the city of Paris, which was basically the habitual actions of the task force after infiltrating each city.

The mission was urgent, and Art only told Stanley to infiltrate the city of Paris first, keep an eye on the Order's headquarters in Paris and various vaults near Paris, and then wait for him to go to Paris to direct the operation himself.

On the second day of infiltrating the city of Paris, Stanley divided the ten team members into five groups in pairs, one or two of them disguised as beggars and homeless people to sit and monitor near the Paris Temple (the headquarters of the Order) and the vault of the Paris Order, three groups dressed as two vendors selling groceries along the street, responsible for delivering news, four groups waited at the port dock south of the city to pick up Art's party who rushed to Paris, and the last group stayed with Stanley to guard the secret stronghold in the city of Paris and supported various places as a reserve team at any time......

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The large single-sail Kirk sailed on the wide channel of the Seine, with a wolf's head heraldic flag hanging on the top of the mainmast, guards armed with short spears stood on the bow and stern towers, and there were rows of tents in the middle of the deck, under which twenty soldiers sat or stood, talking in a low voice about the customs outside the ship, and the neighing of war horses was heard from time to time in the cabins below deck.

From time to time, shipwrights and sailors walked between the decks and cargo ships, and steered the big ships to the bustling French capital of Paris.

Now that Art was already an earl, he was of course qualified and able to rent an entire river boat, but due to the limited load of the Kirk ship sailing the river, in addition to Art and his accompanying thirty people, he could only carry ten more horses, so most of the horses of the Atwei were left in a farm near the port of embarkation.

In the stern building, Art and Robert, who was accompanying him, whispered a conversation while drinking wine.

“...... At its peak, the Holy Order had more than 20,000 members and more than 9,000 estates, and even the royal courts of the mainland countries had to borrow money from the Holy Order's treasury to support it. With such a huge sacred organization, did His Holiness really dare to do anything to him? Although Art had prophesied the end of the Order to the diocesan archbishop and earl advisor on several occasions, Robert was still a little skeptical.

Art turned his head to look at the sky outside the window of the ship's building, "The Holy Order prospers because it is strong, and it will also perish because it is strong. ”

Robert sighed, "If the Holy Order still ends up like this, we~"

Art turned his head and looked at Robert with a determined gaze, "I know what you're worried about, but we don't pose a threat to the one on the Iron Throne yet, and he won't attack us. When we can threaten him, we don't have to be afraid. ”

Robert also saw the situation in the Princedom of Burgundy clearly, and now it seems that Flender not only has to rely on Art, who has a strong army, to stabilize the situation for him, but also relies on Arte to expand his territory for him, so Yat and Wales Province have no worries for the time being.

"Then how do you plan to get a piece of the pie under the sword of the King of France in Paris this time? The French legion in Paris was not an easy one to deal with. ”

"There is always a risk of failure in conspiracy, so I'm not entirely sure, but this is an opportunity for Wales to take a leap forward, and I can't let it slip away." ”

On the twenty-fifth day of the ninth month of the year 1307 of Christ, the sky was clear.

A large Kirk river ship sailed from the "mountains" southeast of the Kingdom of France to the port south of Paris.

The sailboat had just docked when two sailor-looking men boarded the ship.

In a short time, Arte Wood Wells, Count of the Princes of Burgundy and military vice-delegate of the court of the Kingdom of France, led Robert, Bishop of the Diocese of the Princes of Burgundy, escorted by eleven elite cavalrymen, to the royal palace in Paris.

Paris is still the stinking Paris of four years ago, but Art is no longer the baron of the poor mountainous region of the past.

To say that in the capital of Paris, the princes have come and gone, and the counts have walked everywhere, and a small Yat is really not a role here.

However, the Burgundy region, which had lived far away in the mountains and remote areas, was too noisy in recent years, and when the ceremonial officials of the royal court of Paris learned of the news that the important ministers of the vassal country had gone to Paris to meet them, they immediately sent an adjutant and a group of officials to meet them at the city gate.

Obviously, the officials of Paris, the capital of the great country, were accustomed to seeing dignitaries, so when Art arrived at the city gates, the ceremonial officials who greeted him were not too enthusiastic.

But as soon as Ron handed a small bag of rattling coins to the ceremonial lieutenant, all the reverence and smiling faces crept up his cheeks.

The lowly officials immediately began to drive away the untouchables who had crowded the roads, making way for the generous Earl.

When the nobles of the subject country and above arrived in Paris for an audience, the court would arrange a special hotel to provide food and lodging, so the group was directly led in by the ceremonial adjutant, who had received the favor, and the courtesy adjutant personally instructed the hotel steward to arrange food and lodging for the distinguished guest and his entourage, and then volunteered to submit the petition to the court for the audience on behalf of Arte.

After a few days of boat rides, Rao is river sailing, Yate and his party were also bumpy and tired, and after a simple meal at the hotel, they fell asleep, and the next period of time must be busy, and Yate must recuperate......

Nothing was said all night.

At noon the next day, the court sent someone to the inn to summon Arte to an audience.

Art immediately asked Ron to load most of the spices, porcelain, and other valuable southern goods on the carriage into four iron crates, and then led Robert into the court with the usher.

Art was only a subject count, so it was impossible for the French king to receive him personally, so the Prime Minister of the Kingdom of France and the Archbishop of Paris summoned both of them on behalf of the French king.

At the beginning of the year, when the Marquis of Burgundy was established, Arte did not follow Flender to Paris to participate in the ceremony of the establishment of the kingdom because he stayed to maintain stability, so he also entered the royal palace of Paris for the first time.

Arte's status was really not high, and the power of the Marquis of Burgundy was really not strong, so the Prime Minister of the French court only met politely with the young count, who was somewhat famous, and gave a few symbolic compliments.

Arte did not expect to be able to become a close friend with the French prime minister in a few words, and he contributed to the French court four iron crates full of valuable southern goods, which were worth no more than fifteen thousand fennigs at the Continental Comptoir in the county of Tignaz, but when they arrived in the city of Paris, the market value of these tributes rose at least four or five times to a small hundred thousand.

For the Kingdom of France, 100,000 pfennigh is not a large number, but the thought of the count of His Highness from a poor country is really touching.

So the Prime Minister of the Court decided to give back to the young Count on behalf of the King of France.

Art rejected the prime minister's horses and gold coins, and he asked the royal court to allow a small merchant alliance called the Continental Comptoir to enter the city of Paris to trade.

The goods of the European Merchant House were sold to the northern countries, including the Kingdom of France, but it did not obtain direct sales privileges, in other words, the southern goods of the European Merchant House were basically sent to the Princes of Burgundy or the southern border of the Duchy of Burgundy, and then resold to other merchants, who bought them to various parts of the North.

The Prime Minister immediately convened the Vice-Chancellor of Finance and granted a three-year trade privilege to the little-known merchant league.

Arte thanked the Prime Minister of France, took Robert out of the court, and then returned to the hotel to pack up a little, and hurried to the headquarters of the Order in the Paris Temple with the gold coins.